Mr. Z

            
             He was an African-American civil rights leader, president of the National Urban Coalition (1971-88), who promoted the need for a mutual partnership between industry and government to foster inner-city development. Holman was born in Minter City, Miss., he graduated magna cum laude from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo. In 1942, he attended the University of Chicago, M.A. 1944, and earned a master of fine arts degree from Yale University in 1954. While working on the English and humanities faculty at Clark College in Atlanta, Ga., he joined students in founding the black journal The Atlanta Inquirer in 1960. Two years later, Holman joined the staff of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, rising to deputy staff director in 1966.Two years later he became vice president of programs at the National Urban Coalition, an organization that was formed after the inner-city race riots of 1967. While serving as the organization's president, Holman advocated programs in housing, education, employment opportunities, job training, and economic development. He forged liaisons between the black and Hispanic communities and was an influential organizer and meeting planner. During the 1980s he was active in developing programs to help minority and female children develop scientific, mathematical, and computer skills. Carl Holman died Aug. 9, 1988 in Washington, D.C. .
             My thesis is to explain how irony is used to develope the poem and its main character.In his poem,.
             "Mr. Z", M. Carl Holman tells the ironic story of a black man and his.
             struggle in a hateful world where he is like ashamed of his face tries to deny everything about it. The way the poem is put together uses leaves little to no doubt that Mr. Z is a black man who shuns everything associated with his race. The first ironic situation in the story his diet changed from pork, cornbread, yams and collards to vintage wines, sauces and salads.